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How Southport Makes the Big Calls
Learn how one club makes tough financial decisions about lawn care, liquor licenses, and major projects to ensure long-term success. Practical tips for club leaders.
Every croquet club runs on decisions made off the lawn. Budgets, equipment, facilities, contractors. Get these right and the club stays healthy. Get them wrong and you're in trouble.
Southport Croquet Club president Charlie Ernst has made plenty of these calls. One of the biggest: how to maintain their lawns.
Good decisions aren't always about cutting costs. Sometimes they're about making the club a better place to be. When Southport got a liquor license, it wasn't about selling drinks. It was about giving members a reason to stay after the game.
Charlie explains why they got a liquor license and how they keep it simple. Cashless sales mean less work for the treasurer.
Before any big spend, Southport does the maths. Charlie explains how they run a cost-benefit analysis and take it to the committee before committing.
Charlie describes how Southport runs formal cost-benefit analysis before major decisions.
Every decision comes back to the same question: does this make the club better for members? Good lawns, good equipment, somewhere nice to sit afterwards. It all adds up.
Having a nice veranda, new lights, nice mallets and good equipment all add up to members enjoying their time at the club.
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